Congratulations to Sandra Constant, Robin Jastrzebski and Goran Rashid, who were awarded Green Chemistry poster prizes at the recent Renewable Chemicals from Lignin Symposium.
Green Chemistry was pleased to sponsor the Renewable Chemicals from Lignin symposium, which took place on 18th November, London, UK with the aim of bringing together researchers from academia and industry involved in the processing and applications of lignin in order to share the science, address the challenges in the field and build collaborations for the future.
Oral presentations were given on a wide variety of topics from lignin structure to biocatalytic conversion and applications, with a great line-up of speakers including Tim Bugg, Mike Jarvis and David Jackson to name just a few. The poster prizes were judged by members of the scientific committee and were awarded as follows:
- Gosan Rashid, University of Warwick, for his poster ‘Discovery of novel bacterial lignin-degrading enzymes.’
- Robin Jastrzebski, Utrecht University, for his poster entitled ‘A sustainable route to dimethyl adipate from lignin by non-heme Iron (III) oxidative cleavage of catechols.’
- Sandra Constant, Utrecht University, for her poster ‘Comparison of the chemical structure of oganosolv lignins extracted from three lignocellulosic sources: Wheat straw, poplar and spruce.’
Take a look at the RSC Conferences website to see what other great events are coming up!
Poster prize winners with some of the speakers and conference organisers
